Index › Products › Nexus · October 2026 Edition

2 categories · Named, not ranked

Nexus

12Judge labels

2First choices

2Negative labels

8 / 14Models named it

2Categories

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Nexus was named 5 times in Artifact registries and 1 other category, where JFrog Artifactory led with 14%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business41 of 86

under the label threshold

Mid-market21 of 89

under the label threshold

Enterprise27 of 77

under the label threshold

In artifact registries · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Nexus for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Artifact and container registries	Developer platform	2%	21 of 89	25%	4	under 10 labels · led by JFrog Artifactory at 14%
Data center networking	Network and edge	0%	160 of 165	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Arista Networks at 27%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Nexus yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Nexus across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	1	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct2 labels1

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained5 labels1

Negative5 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative12 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“At this size, JFrog Artifactory and Sonatype Nexus are the industry standards.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Artifact registries · scale prompt · first choice

“Self-hosted registries: Harbor, Nexus, Artifactory with security scanning” MiniMax M2.5 · Artifact registries · negative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Nexus 5000, whose support ended May 31, 2026” GPT-6 Luna · Data center networking · negative prompt · hard negative

“Thousands of self-hosted registries (e.g., via Harbor, Nexus) are publicly accessible, leaking creds” Grok 4.1 Fast · Artifact registries · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Nexus, over the 12 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Nexus was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Artifactory5 of 121Not among the top eight

GitHub Packages5 of 121Not among the top eight

AWS ECR4 of 122Not among the top eight

Azure Container Registry3 of 122Not among the top eight

Harbor3 of 120Not among the top eight

Google Artifact Registry2 of 122Not among the top eight

JFrog Artifactory2 of 121Not among the top eight

Amazon S32 of 120Not among the top eight

Artifact Registry2 of 120Not among the top eight

Docker Hub2 of 120Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Nexus. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 9 of the 12 answers that named Nexus and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

paloaltonetworks.com3

blog.railway.com2

ciopages.com2

devopsschool.com2

docs.cloud.google.com2

harness.io2

howtoharden.com2

jfrog.com2

ncsc.gov.uk2

safeguard.sh2

No domain is on file for Nexus, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

paloaltonetworks.com/cyberpedia/container-registry-security3

blog.railway.com/p/best-container-registries-20262

ciopages.com/buyer-guides/container-registry-artifact-management2

harness.io/harness-devops-academy/secure-artifact-storage-practices2

howtoharden.com/guides/jfrog2

jfrog.com/jfrog-vs-sonatype2

ncsc.gov.uk/collection/using-containerisation/running-containers2

snyk.io/articles/container-security/container-registry-security2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Nexus

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Nexus; a claim can dispute any of them.

Nexus 5000 1

Follow Nexus

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

Is this your product?

Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Nexus's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Nexus, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Nexus by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Nexus is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Nexus, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.